@Unevenblink you need to look at the time period reflected. Infant mortality and even death during childbirth wasn't uncommon. So here you have a doctor who has probably seen this so much he is personally numb to it and has lost his ability to empathize. So to him it is just a Tuesday thing. Not saying he is right just that he is numb to it. This is a period where many children where dead by 12. These infant, child, and childbirth deaths were what brought the life expectancies down so much. Death was a simple fever away.